Life is a beautiful struggle
People search through the rubble for a suitable hustle
I try, I try
I try, I try
Upside down kingdom
I try, I try
I try, I try
I try, you know I try
When people suffer tonight, Lord knows I try
The label want a song about a bubbly life
Everyday on the news we can't look around with
I try, I try
America's ghettos that set up the slaughterers
I try, I try
I try, you know I try
I try, I try
Something to take in vain like the Lord's name
An upside down kingdom where life is just not fair
Although we speak in different languages
Yo, the things I'm seein' on the news is insane
On top of wife beaters, we like to light reefers
Put your hands together, got 'em all sayin'
But there's more of us
You know I try
I try, you know I try
I try, you know I try
I try, I try
Where would they be if you and I don't care?
The 'hood need us for rappers, just ain't the right leaders
Three years old, eatin' ketchup and mustard, cryin' for help
I try, I try
Fear pumped into their veins to keep them from their destiny
Disturbed by the fame just like Kurt Cobain
Some many sufferin' 'cuz deep inside they're scared
You know I try
You know what it is
Come on, say it now
I try, you know I try
I'm grown with pains way deeper than my receivers
Tryin' to bring your struggle to life
I try, I try
Some people usin' the noodle, some people usin' the muscle
More metal for beef that we don't let the law settle
I have trouble tryin' to write some shit
Everyday I
I try, oh Lord I try
People search through the rubble for a suitable hustle
Oh, they're so scared
We all pretty familiar with what anger is
Some people put it all together, yeah
Come on
Hey yo, hey yo, hey yo
I try to navigate the treacherous waters of
Some people put it all together, make it fit like a puzzle
Nothin' hurt like the pain and torture
And we put it on records to entertain ya wit'
Young and dangerous, trick a strangle is
Stop the industry but you can't stop the music
A mother leave her baby home for two weeks all by himself
I try, you know I try
Breath of life, kiss of death, my lips pursed the same
Got searched on the plane, Arabic first name
Daughters of the dust lookin' for a vein
Get up on some gangsta shit
Our uniforms is white sneakers and white T-shirts
Life is a beautiful struggle
Some people usin' the noodle, some people usin' the muscle
You flirt 'til she came
something somewhere
To BANG in the club through the night
I put a lot into it
I try, you know I try
Guns to bang ya wit'
You know I try
I try, you know I try
This is my product and I gotta move it
I try, I try
Yo, it's all ghetto in gear higher, the floor settle
K West, Kweli
A stock broker shoot his kid and throw himself in front of a train
